Heidi von beltz paralyzed stomach

It’s like someone put you in a cannon and shot you into a brick wall and you went slithering down and then someone said, Okay, get up and walk.

”This is a pretty easy day,” explains Heidi von Beltz, a former stuntwoman and actress, as she pedals another mile on her motorized leg bike in the workout room of her rented house in Malibu.

Sweat pours down her face as she works her hand bike; she grimaces while doing vertical sit-ups in her standing frame.

Today, von Beltz, six feet tall, tanned, toned, and striking at 40, is working out for only 4 hours, instead of her usual 10.

Heidi von beltz paralyzed stomach

”Like I’m supposed to sit around on my butt all day?” she says of her vigorous exercise routine. ”Forget it!” Her goal, which has not changed in the 16 years since a stunt-car crash on the set of The Cannonball Run, one of the worst accidents in the history of movies, made her a quadriplegic, is to get up and walk.

But even the super-disciplined von Beltz can be forgiven f